Pancreas

Research Hotspot & Journal Scope - Recurrent

Background Intratumoral injection is a palliative treatment that aims at further improvement in the survival and quality of life of patients with advanced or recurrent carcinomas, or cancer patients with severe comorbidities or those with a poor performance status.

Patient concerns: A 34-year-old multiparous woman was operated on multiple recurrent uterine leiomyoma in parametrium.

Recurrent pericarditis is a frequent and troublesome complication of acute pericarditis.

CONCLUSIONS DCR with silicone tube intubation is a safe and effective surgical approach with satisfactory outcomes for treating recurrent lacrimal abscess with congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction in children younger than 6 years.

Existing regression methods for recurrent gap times are not directly applicable to study post-transplant infection because the initiating event (transplant) is different than the recurrent events of interest (post-transplant infections); as a result, the time from transplant to the first infection and the time elapsed between consecutive infections have distinct biological meanings and hence follow different distributions.